The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-06-03

bacco, in all mems mouths. 1t is said that
he holds more positions of business trust than
any man in the state. He is president OF Il
tobacco company which has a capital OF
81 500, 900; president of the Durham Electric
Light company and of the Durham and r X
boro railway; vice president of the Durham
cotton mills and of the Durham bobbin and
shuttle mills. He has branches of his tobacco
business in all the cities in this country and
in all the great cities of the world, and his
sign, the Durham Bull, adorns fences and
bilboards in all Canada, the United States
and Mexico Mr.. Carr's wealth is estimated
at over half amillion, yet be is as quiet and
unobtrusive as he was when poor private iii
Lees army. 80
Other honors than those gathered In fiies
business field have fallen to the lot of Mr.
Carr. He a member of the beard of trustees
Il the state I'm. versity and on its execu.
committee. His money and influence have
done much toward rehabilitating that hon.
ored old institution, which was so nearly
wrecked by the war. He is a member of the
Methodist church and is president of the
trustees of Trinity, the leading college of
that denomination in the south. He has given
that college large sums, and only month
ago gave $40, 900 to its endowment fund He
is president of the board of managers of
Greensboro Female college, another import
ant Methodist institution. He is member
of the board OF trustees of the female semi
nary at Durham, and has given large sums
thereto. He has been equally generous to
the Durham graded school with its $50 pu-
pills. All these institutions are for whites,
but Mr.. Carr, with true public spirit. does
not confine his good work to that race alone,
for his charities to the colored people have
won for him the highest regard of the latter
in all parts of the state. He is a member Of
the board of trustees of the colored normal
and mechanical college at Kittrell
Mr.. Carr is a member of the board of
directors Of the Oxford Orphan asylum, a
charity which is the noblest in the state,
where 200 orphans are maintained and edu-
Gated, mainly by the Masons of North
Carolina. To this asylum he has been
liberal giver, again and again. No man in
the state is more closely connected with OF so
liberal or SO prominent in church and Sunday
school work in the Methodist denomination
In 1878 he attended the Robert Raikes Sun
day school convention, at London, England,
as the delegate from North Carolina, and in
1881 attended the ecumenical council Of the
Methodists of the world, at the same place
Since that time he has been delegate to the
general conference of the Southern Methodist
Episcopal church and delegate to the Metho-
dist centenary at Baltimore. He has given
large sums for the erection of one of
the finest Methodist churches in the state, at
Durham and in May presented the Metho-
dists there with another church, as his abso-
lutte gift. This church has just been dedicated
by Bishop Duncan. 1t is said that he has
given churches in various parts Of the state,
of various denominations, and both white
and colored, over 900 in the past seven
years.
Mr.. Carr is to-day one of the men most
prominently mentioned in connection with
the Democratic nomination for governor.
Eight years ago he was nominated for lieu
tenant governor. At the Democratic con-
vention at Chicago in 1884 he was delegate
from the state at large, and did important
committee work. He has not sought political
preferment; it has, like other things, come to
him. He is thoroughly practical. His in
formation about tobacco is extensive and
thorough, and he is vice president of the
American Tobacco association. He is also a
member of the advisory council of the Amer
lean exposition in London, and will spend
some time there this year.
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All this work, so great and varied, has been
done and all these honors won by man not
yet 42 years of age; man of the people and
for the people; typical North Carolinian
and exponent Of the 'new SOUTH" whose COM
prehensive charity and good works have
brought him success in public fields only
equaed by the business prosperity which his
nntiring energy and liberal grasp of ideas
have won in the great struggle His is the
story of straightforward, manly, typical
American. FRED A. OLDs.